How many previous owners?
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psi
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Mine's had 8 previous owners over 18 years. Everybody I have spoken to that bought one when they came out has said how much they hated it and they were always going wrong. So not sure if the large number of cars with high ownership may have been due to problems in early life (but mines well sorted now[
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James_G
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Agree, a plate change will only cause a re-issue of a V5C and not a change of owner.
I am the 9th owner. The 7th owner bought it in 1998 (for £11,950!!) and sold in 2006. So in the 7 years prior to that it had 6 owners which sounds consistent with others. I hate to say it (and make sweeping generalisations) but new premium cars tend to have lots of owners because they are either bought by money that isn't there, and thus must be sold on or by genuinely well off people who have the money to buy the new best thing a year later. Just have a look on Pistonheads at all the two and three owner Caymans available, a car that is no more than three years old tops. The BMW Z4 also seems to suffer this fate too, for some reason. But some friends have just bought a three owner RX-8 and that's a 54 plate, so maybe we're just a fickle nation.
I am the 9th owner. The 7th owner bought it in 1998 (for £11,950!!) and sold in 2006. So in the 7 years prior to that it had 6 owners which sounds consistent with others. I hate to say it (and make sweeping generalisations) but new premium cars tend to have lots of owners because they are either bought by money that isn't there, and thus must be sold on or by genuinely well off people who have the money to buy the new best thing a year later. Just have a look on Pistonheads at all the two and three owner Caymans available, a car that is no more than three years old tops. The BMW Z4 also seems to suffer this fate too, for some reason. But some friends have just bought a three owner RX-8 and that's a 54 plate, so maybe we're just a fickle nation.
Suffolk944
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Mine had five previous owners over 18 years so not too bad. She has been in my possesion for four and a half years now and looks to be sticking around for a while yet []
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pauljmcnulty
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Don't forget that a lot of late-80s sports cars were company-owned. Mine passed from company to the driver, a director, owning it privately. He then registered it to his wife, and then another family member. So, four owners in three years, but actually never left the house.
This did come up before, and plate changes did count as a change of owner back then. Apparently. Probably.....[&:]
This did come up before, and plate changes did count as a change of owner back then. Apparently. Probably.....[&:]
pauljmcnulty
Active member
So, which part of "apparently, probably " was hard to understand......[&:]
I'd like to think that the people reading this would understand that it is not a certain thing. My car has very clearly only a certain number of owners, and some of the changes are plate changes. I'd never have considered mortgaging the house on that basis, but did buy a pretty good old car.
Please feel free to speak to me personally if you feel that "apparently and probably" are not sufficient to allow people the intelligence to check the history fully.....
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